[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

DTL wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm urgently needing some examples of Fortran code to do text
> processing, mainly reading a file, doing some strings manipulation
> then writing records into a new file.
> I trashed all my DEC stuff five years ago. Too bad...
> 
> Thanks.

You may not find much!  Fortran's strength was numerical computation. 
It would be used for text processing only if nothing else were available.

Is there some reason not to use a text editor?